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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Yes, stage 17 looks bananas. 65km including mountains.

    ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).

    Oh great, will we get a red carpet again? :roll:
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).
    A relative newbie asks - what's the difference between an ITT and a TT?
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).
    A relative newbie asks - what's the difference between an ITT and a TT?

    A typo.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).
    A relative newbie asks - what's the difference between an ITT and a TT?

    A typo.
    :mrgreen:
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,702
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).
    A relative newbie asks - what's the difference between an ITT and a TT?

    A typo.

    Individual Time Trail vs Team Time Trial

    (TT = Time Trail usually assumed to be ITT)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    As opposed to TTT.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,702
    ddraver wrote:
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).
    A relative newbie asks - what's the difference between an ITT and a TT?

    A typo.

    Individual Time Trail vs Team Time Trial

    (TT = Time Trail usually assumed to be ITT)


    Neither are worth watching
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Cobble stage same day as football world cup final.
    _
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cobble stage same day as football world cup final.

    Aren't y'all boycotting the latter cuz it is Russia?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    dish_dash wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cobble stage same day as football world cup final.

    Aren't y'all boycotting the latter cuz it is Russia?

    Who, me?
    _
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    dish_dash wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cobble stage same day as football world cup final.

    Aren't y'all boycotting the latter cuz it is Russia?
    I'll be boycotting it simply because football is about the most boring thing on earth :mrgreen:
  • HoLana
    HoLana Posts: 6
    I'm a bit disappointed
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,257
    dish_dash wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cobble stage same day as football world cup final.

    Aren't y'all boycotting the latter cuz it is Russia?
    All the Dutch are boycotting it.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Yeah yeah.
    _
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,439
    RichN95 wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cobble stage same day as football world cup final.

    Aren't y'all boycotting the latter cuz it is Russia?
    All the Dutch are boycotting it.

    Wales out in sympathy?
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,181
    I think it looks alright. Sprinters stages in the first week, but apart from stage 7, not too long.

    Stage 5 looks good, stage 9 has the cobbles, Alps looks pretty, Carcassonne should have a wild finish, Pyrenees looks a bit crazy which is good, then the ITT looks fun.

    Going to look good on the telly, for sure.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
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    Mons en Pevele! Did they ride that one in 2014?
  • meursault
    meursault Posts: 1,433
    Timoid. wrote:
    I was hoping for Ventoux after a (now false) leaked version of the course.

    I guess we cant have the Alpe and Ventoux in the same year.

    May I confirm deffo no Ventoux? I am planning a Cingles challenge, so affects when I book it.
    Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

    Voltaire
  • roubaixmb
    roubaixmb Posts: 182
    meursault wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    I was hoping for Ventoux after a (now false) leaked version of the course.

    I guess we cant have the Alpe and Ventoux in the same year.

    May I confirm deffo no Ventoux? I am planning a Cingles challenge, so affects when I book it.

    Deffo no Ventoux
  • gingermagician
    gingermagician Posts: 326
    Did the rumoured Tro-Bro Léon-style stage make the cut?
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Love the cobbles. Will literally shake up the GC hopefully.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,181
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Mons en Pevele! Did they ride that one in 2014?

    Yes.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,257
    GingerMagician wrote:
    Did the rumoured Tro-Bro Léon-style stage make the cut?
    No
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,257
    kleinstroker wrote:
    Love the cobbles. Will literally shake up the GC hopefully.
    With reduced teams you'd be pretty smug if you were a team leader fortunate enough to have a teammate that can both climb, ride cobbles and time trial. Someone like Thomas, Kwiatkowski or Moscon.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Still on ITv4 all day or just Eurosport/etc?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Mons en Pevele! Did they ride that one in 2014?

    Yes.

    It was one of the two sections that was cut from the stage due to flooding.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    RichN95 wrote:
    kleinstroker wrote:
    Love the cobbles. Will literally shake up the GC hopefully.
    With reduced teams you'd be pretty smug if you were a team leader fortunate enough to have a teammate that can both climb, ride cobbles and time trial. Someone like Thomas, Kwiatkowski or Moscon.

    Almost don't want the shark to ride it, lest he ruin the legend.
    _
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,181
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Mons en Pevele! Did they ride that one in 2014?

    Yes.

    It was one of the two sections that was cut from the stage due to flooding.

    On the basis of new information, I would like to revise my answer. No.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,257
    Once again Romain Bardet looked like someone auditioning for the role of Doctor Who

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  • meursault
    meursault Posts: 1,433
    RoubaixMB wrote:
    meursault wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    I was hoping for Ventoux after a (now false) leaked version of the course.

    I guess we cant have the Alpe and Ventoux in the same year.

    May I confirm deffo no Ventoux? I am planning a Cingles challenge, so affects when I book it.

    Deffo no Ventoux

    Grazie.
    Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

    Voltaire

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